Building digital infrastructure for the next era.
Writing human frameworks for the current one.
Navoch Mohanayak. I build things that compute, cool, fly, and occasionally make you laugh. Not always in that order.
Futurist
Two decades spotting inflection points early - most recently as VP at Frost & Sullivan. The professional habit of seeing what's coming before the market has agreed it's coming.
Frontiersman
Building where the map runs out - compute, energy, space, flight. Frontiers, not adjacencies. Deep-tech ventures that pick a fight with the current textbook.
Founder
Co-founder across five ventures turning stubborn questions into companies. From high-density data centres to wingless flight - questions wearing business plans.
Fosterer
Author of five books and counting; mentor, essayist, collector of interesting questions. The human bit - because IQ without EQ is just a very fast argument.
Four frontiers. Five bets.
Five out. Five on the way.
Where both worlds stop pretending to be separate.
Philosophy Was the First Source Code
We treat ancient philosophy like a museum exhibit - admire it, date it, move on. This is a mistake of category. The Stoics, the Nyaya logicians, the authors of the Tao were not doing literature. They were writing operating instructions for a machine they couldn't see the inside of: the human being, running in an environment it didn't design.
The Agent Doesn't Want Anything (And That's the Whole Problem)
There's a particular look people get when they first watch an AI agent complete a multi-step task on its own. Book the flight, draft the email, reconcile the spreadsheet, all unprompted after the first instruction. It's the look of someone meeting a very capable stranger and not yet knowing whether to be delighted or afraid. The honest answer is: both, and for the same reason.
For ventures, advisory, speaking, or a well-argued disagreement - this is the door.
Books-related mail cheerfully accepted too.